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Organizational Behavior In Christian Perspective
$49.99Add to cartOrganizational behavior is an important and growing field in leadership and management studies, yet it has been largely overlooked by leaders of churches and other Christian ministries. Franklin Markow, who has been teaching leadership and organizational studies for 25 years, believes a comprehensive understanding of organizational behavior is essential for effective leadership. This introduction to the topic accounts for the unique dynamics of Christian organizations, gives theological foundations, and provides key insights and guidance to those studying or practicing leadership in churches and ministries.
Markow proposes and explains organizational behavior using a comprehensive “Five-Level Model,” which encompasses the 1) individual, 2) interpersonal, 3) group, 4) organizational, and 5) interorganizational perspectives of organizations. Readers will gain a better understanding of their organization and how people relate to it and to one another. The goal is to help people and organizations thrive and fulfill their God-given missions. Besides utilizing seminal and current sources from the field of organizational studies, Markow draws on interviews with senior-level leaders in churches and nonprofits for fresh and ministry-focused insights. Each chapter includes review questions, case studies, further reading suggestions, and current issue sidebars, making it a perfect textbook for college or seminary leadership classes. It is also a helpful resource for those in church administration and for all leaders who want to broaden their perspective and improve their practice.
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Rebecoming : Come Out Of Hiding To Live As Your God-Given Essential Self
$39.99Add to cartFinding our true selves has become the call of authentic living. But this is where we can get it wrong and inadvertently pursue the wrong things. Living out of our true selves isn’t just about becoming–it’s about unbecoming all the things we believed we had to be to be loved and rebecoming our essential, God-given selves.
In this practical book, clinical psychologist Dr. Merry C. Lin guides you through a self-discovery process toward life-changing, daily transformation. She shows you how to:
– understand what motivates you and why you do what you do
– identify things you do out of fear and self-protection
– develop true resilience to handle the challenges of life
– experience joy as you experience success in pursuing your dreams
– and moreReady to live out of your healthiest, most integrated self to fulfill God’s purposes for your life? It’s time to embark on your own journey of rebecoming.
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What I Saw In Heaven
$39.99Add to cartHeidi Barr didn’t believe in Jesus. No one in her Jewish family did, nor did they want to–especially not her father, who told her that Jesus Christ was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on humankind. So when Heidi was in a terrible horseback riding accident and died at age 16, Jesus was the last person she expected to see. Yet she did. And then she returned to life.
This is the incredible true story of Heidi’s difficult family life, her sudden death, her unexpectedly loving encounter with Jesus, and her return to life on earth as a person completely and irrevocably changed. This is also the story of Heidi loving her father and mother despite their disbelief of and disagreement with her faith. And this is the gripping, beautiful story of her parents’ eventual reconciliation both with Heidi and with God, through the redeeming grace and all-encompassing love of Jesus Christ.
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Misled : 7 Lies That Distort The Gospel And How You Can Discern The Truth
$19.99Add to cartThe gospel is under attack today–not only from outside cultural forces but also from within the church. In Misled, popular YouTuber and Bible teacher Allen Parr equips readers to identify and withstand seven of the most common false teachings that undermine the gospel and lead many well-meaning Christians astray.
For an anxious and weary world, the gospel of Jesus Christ is the one true source of deep peace and lasting joy. But today, many supposedly Christian teachers are spreading ideas that amount to what Paul called “another gospel.”
The result? A generation of believers confused about what God really says, what he offers, and what he wants for his children. From the heavy burden of legalism to an overemphasis on prosperity or spiritual gifts to warped understandings of grace, every false teaching has two things in common: they all use half-truths that look and sound biblical (making them very difficult to identify) and they all harm and discourage those who are trying to follow the way of Jesus.
In Misled, Allen Parr weaves together stories from his own spiritual journey and the lives of those he’s ministered to in order to show the painful consequences of following false teachings and to provide clear explanations of what the Bible really teaches about the gospel. Readers will
*learn about seven of the most misleading and harmful messages that run rampant within the church today;
*be equipped to identify not only “wolves in shepherd’s clothing” who peddle counterfeit gospels, but also well-intentioned teachers whose half-truths are no less harmful to the church; and
*discover how they can find the freedom, peace, and joy that only comes from embracing the gospel in all its purity and simplicity.
With the same balanced, Bible-based approach that has made Parr’s YouTube channel a go-to resource, Misled offers clarity and hope for anyone who has felt discouraged or confused in their spiritual journey–and invites readers to find everything they’ve been searching for in the true gospel.
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Collecting Confidence : Start Where You Are To Become The Person You Were M
$19.99Add to cartShowcasing the confidence she’s gathered from her own life journey, Kim Gravel–beloved QVC star and creator of Belle by Kim Gravel and Belle Beauty–invites you to look at yourself with a fresh new lens, encouraging you to start where you are and become the person you were meant to be.
Bold. Audacious. Warm. Funny. Real. These are just a few words that describe Kim Gravel, entrepreneur, podcaster, TV personality, and host of several number-one hit shows on QVC. The minute she says, Hey, ya’ll, you can feel her authentic personality shining through–but she felt pressure to conform for a stretch of her life. She hid her light and lost her shine. In the aftermath of the pressures of the pageant scene and a toxic failed marriage, Kim found herself alone in a run-down apartment, and it was there that she started to grow closer to God. In the quiet of her tiny Pepto Bismol-pink apartment, she could hear the still, small voice of God–and she listened. And as she listened, her life started to change and she began to discover her purpose, including her first gig as a talk-show host at a community TV station just a few blocks from her apartment. Her purpose was just steps away!
As Kim says, Struggling doesn’t have to be your badge of honor. No one wants an ill-fitting life. You want to live a custom-made life designed to fit you perfectly….You are beautiful, loved, strong, smart, one of a kind, unique, created for a purpose, protected, empowered, cared for, and important. If your life is not getting bigger, it’s time to change it. Reimagine your life. It’s time to start co-creating your life with the Creator. It doesn’t matter what age you are. You’re never too old to think differently. The best life is ahead of you, not behind you.
Now Kim’s mission as a global voice is to build up women with words of encouragement, reminding them to trust God, stop struggling, embrace the beauty of who they are and step into their power and purpose. Collecting Confidence will allow readers to:
*accept the beauty of who they are,
*glean empowerment from life’s lowest moments,
*experience biblical wisdom blended with laugh-out-loud humor,
*and be inspired by no-holds-barred, relatable stories.If you’ve lost your way and forgotten who you are, this book is for you. It’s time to be still, listen to God, and start collecting confidence one step, one lesson, one experience, and even one mistake at a time. As Kim says, You can’t be authentic in the world if you c
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Revelation Bible Study Book With Video Access (Student/Study Guide)
$24.99Add to cartPerhaps no other book of the Bible feels as inaccessible and as intimidating to us as the very last one. The book of Revelation overflows with images and ideas that confound our modern ears. But if all Scripture is God-breathed and profitable, we should assume Revelation is as accessible and helpful as any other book of the Bible. Why don’t we see it that way?
Two thousand years ago, John’s Revelation was circulated and read aloud among seven churches in Asia Minor. Those who heard the letter understood it and drew encouragement from its message. The same can be true for you today. Over 10 sessions of verse-by-verse Bible study, Jen Wilkin helps you discover how the last book of the Bible-the culmination of God’s great story-speaks both a steadying word of assurance and a strong call to endure to the church in every age.
Features
*Verse-by-verse study of the book of Revelation
*10 video teaching sessions unpacking truths found throughout the study and offering additional insights, available via redemption code printed in the Bible study book
*9 weeks of personal study featuring illuminating questions to help you focus on and understand Scripture
*Includes the full text of Revelation
*Appendix with helps for interpretation and further study
*Leader helps for group discussion
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Enneagram For Moms
$19.99Add to cartBeth McCord, widely known as Your Enneagram Coach, shows how motherhood is divinely intended to be a transformative journey where moms not only help paint a portrait of their family, but also cultivate resilience, self-awareness, and deep connections with God, their spouse, and their children.
Beth McCord takes women on a transformative journey through motherhood, blending Enneagram wisdom with practical insights to foster authentic and healthy family dynamics. Beth unveils a guiding metaphor that brings clarity to the intricate art of parenting: diverse colors on a divine palette, graciously used by God to create the beautiful messiness of family life, all the while empowering and redeeming our contributions as parents. These colors represent the unique motivations and strategies reflective of each Enneagram Type.
God alone is the Master Artist intricately involved in every brushstroke, so moms can find rest and confidence in knowing that the outcomes of His masterpiece are in His capable hands. Gaining deeper understanding of their own inner world (and not just their kids’, which is what many parents seek the most), The Enneagram for Moms will help mothers:
*find healing for their emotional patterns and personality, allowing them to be healthy and positive influences in their children’s lives;
*discover how their distinct shades already color their parenting approach;
*gain valuable tools to help their children navigate their own emotional landscapes with self-awareness and resilience;
*see themselves and their children as God intends, breaking free from the cycles of mommy shaming and mommy guilting; and
*recognize that each child already possesses a unique blend of colors, reflecting God’s infinitely beautiful design.
This essential resource speaks directly to the heart of every mother, caregiver, or concerned adult seeking guidance and peace. Moms no longer need to strive for perfection or conform to society’s expectations or their own insecure standards of comparison. Instead, they can rely on God’s providence and guidance as they navigate the beautiful messiness of family life.
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Dangerous Decrees That Destroy Strongholds
$26.99Add to cartBecome a Threat to the Powers of Darkness
Are you doing everything you can-saying the right prayers, doing the right things-yet still finding yourself swallowed up by circumstances, devoid of peace, or constantly falling short of victory?
It’s in these desperate spiritual fights that you face a critical choice: let your problems overcome you or overcome your problems. There is no middle ground.
Shifting you from defense to offense, globally respected apostolic leader Dr. Francis Myles equips you to triumphantly wage war in the spiritual realm through powerful, Bible-based warfare decrees and declarations that re-route the enemy and secure your ultimate victory.
From sickness, anxiety, and trauma to relationships, sexuality, and finances, Dr. Myles arms you with effective battle strategies, unstoppable weapons, and supernatural prayers that empower you to:
Partner with the Lord of Hosts.Confess the Word of God.Uproot the demonic source of your earthly problems.Break the power of witchcraft, freemasonry, familiar spirits, and false prophesies.Prevail against demonic attacks and strongholds.Unleash unthinkable breakthrough.
Stop allowing the forces of darkness to threaten you-now is your time to release dangerous decrees and become a threat to them.
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Higher Authority : Operate In The Supernatural Power Of God And Expose Hell
$26.99Add to cartIn God’s Image-or in Satan’s?
Did you know that the current technologies praised in the media-like genetic engineering, cryogenics, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence-are driven by demonic designs? That current advancements are actually taking us further away from God’s original design?
Scientists and futurists push to enhance mankind into a post-human race with man-made superpowers. But this is treacherous ground, following in the devil’s own footsteps. We’ve forgotten that our Creator’s desire is to transform us from a fallen creation into a new creation with divinely given supernatural power. There is a higher authority that only the King of kings has to give, and you were anointed and empowered by His Spirit to walk in this!
Diving into the alarming goals of transhumanism-and its demonic implications for humanity-beloved pastor Bishop Hugh Smith reveals how to truly receive superhuman capabilities, imparting urgent prophetic insight on these end-times phenomena and revealing God’s true strategy for transforming you into an enhanced human being.
In Higher Authority, Bishop Smith goes beyond the headlines and media hype, exposing the dehumanizing agenda sweeping the world today, and offers prophetic interpretation and practical, grounded, biblical teaching that empowers you to:
*Understand what God is saying about man-enhancing technology-and its immediate and eternal consequences.
*Recognize demonic counterfeits of God’s design and power.
*Receive superhuman wisdom and abilities through the Holy Spirit.
*Operate in your anointed “Christ-implants” for higher effectiveness and functionality.
*Improve what truly matters-your relationship with Jesus.*Topple the global altars of self-glorification.
*Live with true enhanced humanity-body, mind, spirit, soul-to advance His Kingdom.
Heaven is extending a supernatural upgrade to all believers! It’s time to stop enhancing our sinfulness, remaking man in our own fallen image. You are created in the image of God-it’s time to live like it!
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Modern Genre Theory
$29.99Add to cartHow a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text.
The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware approach to genre. Different conceptions of narrative, poetry, gospel, epistle, wisdom, and apocalyptic texts lead to vastly different readings, and our disagreements about what the Bible means often boil down to different assumptions about what the biblical text is. As secular genre theory has experienced a recent renaissance, biblical studies has been left in the dark ages of rigid taxonomies and stubborn essentialism.
The Bible deserves better.
This book offers students in biblical studies an accessible but comprehensive introduction to modern genre theory, providing access to literary tools for understanding how writers and readers use genre to make meaning.
Modern Genre Theory describes the current state of biblical genre theory (as well as the meaning of form criticism and why it needs to die). Scholar of biblical hermeneutics Andrew Judd then presents a better alternative of interpretation based on the best developments in secular literary theory, linguistics, and rhetorical studies.
Drawing on advancements in modern genre theory, Judd:
*Proposes a working definition of genre for biblical studies.
*Identifies twelve tenets of modern genre theory that follow from seeing genres in their historical and social context.
*Offers eight case studies in biblical exegesis to show how a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the Bible.
From the creation accounts of Genesis to the visions of Revelation, it is important to get a handle on genre. This book offers a way to reading the Bible better.
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Long Obedience In The Same Direction Commemorative Edition
$18.00Add to cartOver 300,000 Copies Sold
Since Eugene Peterson first wrote this spiritual formation classic more than forty years ago, hundreds of thousands of Christians have been inspired by its call to deeper discipleship. As a society, we are still obsessed with the immediate, but Peterson’s time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same-a long obedience in the same direction.
Long obedience requires a deepening life of prayer. Peterson finds encouragement for today’s pilgrims in the Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120-134), sung by travelers on their way to worship in Jerusalem. With prophetic and pastoral wisdom, Peterson shows how the psalms teach us to grow in worship, service, joy, work, happiness, humility, community, and blessing.
This commemorative edition of A Long Obedience in the Same Direction includes a preface taken from Leif Peterson’s eulogy at his father’s memorial service and a bibliography of Peterson’s works. A companion Bible study guide is also available.
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Summer Of Yes
$17.99Add to cartSometimes you’re so busy writing other people’s stories that you lose the plot of your own.
This wasn’t how Kelsey Worthington’s day was supposed to go. She wasn’t supposed to be picking up Starbucks for her smarmy boss. She wasn’t supposed to get hit by a car that jumped the curb. And she certainly wasn’t supposed to wake up in a hospital room next to Georgina Tate-the legendary matriarch of New York City businesswomen.
Kelsey and Georgina couldn’t be more opposite. Kelsey’s a dreamer, a writer who questions her own skill. And Georgina is a confident businesswoman whose years of shouldering her way into boardrooms and making her voice heard have made her far too outspoken for the faint of heart.
But now, when Georgina’s failing kidneys force her to face some big regrets about the way she’s lived her life, the two women recognize they share a common thread. Maybe it’s time to confront a few things. They must ask themselves: What if I said yes to everything I’ve always said no to?
With Georgina as her companion, Kelsey soon finds herself doing things she’s never done before. Eating street food. Swimming in the ocean. Matchmaking for Georgina with the help of Georgina’s handsome son. And writing her own romance-both in book form and in real life.
So begins the Summer of Yes.
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Until Our Time Comes
$39.99Add to cartAmerican horse trainer Adia Kensington is living her dream of working at the famous Janow Podlaski stables in Poland, where they breed the best Arabian horses in the world. But her plans to bring the priceless stallion Lubor to the US are derailed when the German army storms into her adopted country in 1939. Little does she know this is just the beginning of six long years of occupation that will threaten her beloved horses at every turn.
Bret Conway is at Janow Podlaski under the guise of a news reporter, but his true mission is intelligence gathering for the British. That and keeping Adia safe, which is harder and harder to do as she insists they must evacuate 250 horses to save them from being stolen, sold, or eaten by the invading forces. What follows will test their physical, mental, and emotional strength, as well as their faith in God, humankind, and each other.
Drawn from true events of World War II, this epic story of escape, capture, resistance, and love from debut novelist Nicole M. Miller will thunder into your heart like a herd of beautiful horses across a raging river.
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Into The Starlight
$29.99Add to cartAfter more than a year in Europe, Joanna Vaughn returns to Sweetwater Crossing, her dreams of becoming a concert pianist shattered. As if that weren’t enough, her husband, whom she married after a whirlwind courtship, has died. The only thing sustaining her on the journey back to Texas was the thought of her childhood home. But to Joanna’s dismay, she’s changed so much that the place she once loved no longer feels like home.
After his fiancee married his partner and both blamed him for a patient’s death, Dr. Burke Finley believes it’s time for a change. A quick trip with his almost-aunt Della Samuels to Sweetwater Crossing turns into an extended stay to discover what happened to his uncle and her would-be husband. But the beautiful and musical Joanna makes it more than bearable.
As the two join forces to help Della, there is no denying the attraction felt on both sides. But ghosts from the past are coming to call–and threatening to destroy any chance at happily-ever-after.
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Hitchhiking With Prophets
$14.95Add to cartThe Bible is not some dusty textbook, but a veritable circus of humanity, with high-soaring saints, back-talking donkeys, left-handed kingslayers, and all the glory and gore you can fit inside the big top of this biblical tent.
And everywhere in this story is God who, in his wild and passionate love for humanity, is shepherding history toward the birth and ministry of Jesus the Messiah.
Do you already have a good grasp of the Old Testament? Wonderful. This book will be an enjoyable review. Do you not know the difference between the Bible and The Hobbit? Also fine. This book will be a helpful map into unknown territory.
By the time we’re done, you won’t know all the ins and outs of the story, but you will have a strong grasp of the major movers and shakers. We will sit shotgun with patriarchs and prophets. Each one will take us a little farther down the Old Testament road until we get to the goal: to Jesus, the one in whom the whole story finds fulfillment and meaning.
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Herod And Mary
$29.99Add to cartExplore the interwoven lives of King Herod and Mary, Mother of Jesus as New York Times bestselling author Kathie Lee Gifford brings these biblical figures into a new light. Follow Herod from boyhood as he strives and fails throughout his life to become a beloved king. Walk in the steps of Mary of Nazareth as she navigates the repercussions of Herod’s deadly obsession.
Delve into the complex history of Herod the Great–his rise to power and ultimate fall in pursuit to be the “King of the Jews.” Under a flourishing yet tumultuous background of Jerusalem, consider Mary of Nazareth’s place under Herod’s rule and the promise of a Messiah to free her people. Kathie Lee Gifford with Bryan M. Litfin, Ph.D. deftly weave a truthful historical narrative full of accurate details and sweeping prose that ushers in the true King and glorifies God’s powerful plan to bring a savior into the world through unlikely means. A coda between the authors, full of honest revelation and insightful meaning, follows each chapter for added in-depth reading.
The first installment in the Ancient Evil, Living Hope series, Herod and Mary begins with the tragic life of King Herod–Christianity’s first true persecutor. As an impressionable boy, he is forever marked by the raw power of Rome. Throughout the course of Herod’s career, he gains power, fame, and riches beyond belief. Yet murderous intrigues stalk this man–and infect his own dark soul.
Under the rule of King Herod, Jerusalem becomes a prominent city of wealth and prosperity, but Mary saw the struggle of her people under a tyrant. Like all Jewish women, she knew the promises of Torah and longed for a deliverer. But no one could have prepared her for what the angel of God revealed: that the Messiah wouldn’t arrive with the blaring of trumpets, the clash of arms, or the fanfare of a mighty host. He would arrive as an infant within her own womb. The light of the world was born in a cave: not a king who maims and destroys, but the gentle King of the Jews.
This riveting narrative nonfiction work reveals deep insight to how Herod came to power, how corruption and an ancient evil threatened the stability of a nation, and how a teenage Mary was called to traverse these obstacles to bring the Savior, Jesus, our living hope, into the world.
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Matters Of The Heart
$17.99Add to cartHe’s the community’s jokester auctioneer. She’s the serious caregiver for her siblings who also works at the local plant nursery. What future could they have together?
Declan Miller has always had feelings for Bethel King. Back when they were in school, she was the smartest girl in the class and, in his opinion, by far the prettiest. Now the two of them are in their twenties and while the attraction is still there, Declan is as hesitant as ever to let Bethel know how he feels. His corny jokes and wisecracks cover a heart that’s afraid of rejection.
Bethel can’t deny Declan is nice, funny, hardworking, and pleasing to the eye–a perfect match if you asked any Plain girl in the area. But marrying Bethel would also mean marrying into her family. Two of her younger brothers have a rare form of muscular dystrophy, and her sister Claire is now showing signs of having it as well. Fiercely loyal and nurturing, Bethel has promised herself her siblings will always come first. With a good chance that she carries the gene and could pass it on to her children, Bethel has tried to convince herself marriage and family just aren’t in the cards for her.
When a devastating diagnosis of his own turns Declan’s world upside down, he looks to Bethel for understanding, compassion, and a realistic outlook. As they share their dreams and fears and grow together in faith, a bond begins to develop between them. Perhaps their combination of optimistic extrovert and thoughtful introvert really isn’t such a bad thing–perhaps it’s actually a part of God’s beautiful design.
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Romans : Live By Faith
$11.99Add to cartIt would not be an exaggeration to say that Romans has been the most influential book in the New Testament when it comes to the theology of the church. Dive into the first 7 chapters of this iconic letter from the apostle Paul to the church in Rome in order to engage with Paul’s thoughts on the problem of humanity, God’s response to the problem, and how the Christian life is to be lived. Romans is Paul’s thorough presentation of what it means to be a Christian, making it the perfect candidate for a small group study.
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His Face Like Mine
$18.00Add to cartHave you ever tasted true freedom?
Russell Joyce was born with a rare craniofacial disorder called Goldenhar syndrome, where the left side of his face was not formed. Years of patchwork surgeries made him more outwardly presentable, but not without deep pain and physical and emotional scars. But a life-changing encounter broke through to him with a power he never thought possible, in the very place he never thought to look-his broken face.
This set Russell on a journey to understand what was hindering him and others from experiencing the power of God’s grace and being truly set free. During a season of starting a new church in Brooklyn, New York, he learned how the broken places of our lives can be transformed when Jesus meets us in the realities of our woundedness. God doesn’t love us despite our wounds but through those very wounds. By his scars we are healed, and we can find new depths of freedom in Christ, scars and all.
A warning: this journey will not be easy. A promise: it will be well worth the risk.
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Live In The Light
$18.00Add to cartWe are in a season of church meltdown.
The apostle John-the beloved disciple and the author of the Gospel by the same name-wrote letters to churches caught in a turbulent season of leadership failures, divisions over interpretation and practice, church splits, and even a powerful leader stirring up dissent. Sound familiar? It seems as though the church is melting under an angry heat wave of national politics, racism, injustice, and abuse.
Is there any hope?
Tara Beth Leach invites us to listen for John’s guidance to the church. The same message John sent to Christians in his day is also a message for us today! Darkness seems to surround us, leaving so many without hope. But Jesus, the Light of the world, invites his followers to share that light with others and become the kind of community that brings love, hope, and healing to every darkened space.
Join us for these next six weeks and learn to live in the light!
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Chosen Upon This Rock Novel 4
$19.99Add to cartFrom the fate of John the Baptist to Jesus’ profound teaching on inexhaustible forgiveness, in this fourth installment of The Chosen series, we grieve with Jesus’ followers at an unspeakable loss, traverse with them “the extra mile,” face down the Pharisees, and witness an impossible miracle.
As religious leaders conspire to put an end to His ministry, His renown, and His very life, Jesus’ followers wonder at His ominous parables and pronouncements.
Beyond retelling the familiar accounts, Upon This Rock sees Simon become Peter and takes us to the innermost thoughts of the major players in the greatest story ever told.
Based on the acclaimed TV series The Chosen, the life of Jesus gets a fresh, new telling in this novel series from New York Times bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins.
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Chosen Upon This Rock Novel 4
$27.99Add to cartFrom the fate of John the Baptist to Jesus’ profound teaching on inexhaustible forgiveness, in this fourth installment of The Chosen series, we grieve with Jesus’ followers at an unspeakable loss, traverse with them “the extra mile,” face down the Pharisees, and witness an impossible miracle.
As religious leaders conspire to put an end to His ministry, His renown, and His very life, Jesus’ followers wonder at His ominous parables and pronouncements.
Beyond retelling the familiar accounts, Upon This Rock sees Simon become Peter and takes us to the innermost thoughts of the major players in the greatest story ever told.
Based on the acclaimed TV series The Chosen, the life of Jesus gets a fresh, new telling in this novel series from New York Times bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins.
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Irreverent Prayers : Talking To God When You’re Seriously Sick
$21.99Add to cartTwo pastors share their experiences with serious illness–and their candid, darkly humorous prayers for making it through.
Samantha Vincent-Alexander almost died from a septic leg infection. Elizabeth Felicetti underwent aggressive treatment for both breast and lung cancer in the space of a few months–and then the cancer came back. As Episcopal priests, they know well the typical prayers offered in times like these. But when you’re seriously sick, you need more than psalms and sentimentality.
You need to tell God how you really feel.
With vulnerability and wry humor, Felicetti and Vincent-Alexander share the prayers they wish they had when they were ill: thanksgiving for one-size-fits-all hospital underwear, curses against Tylenol, frustrated appeals when well-wishers call you brave or inspiring. At once faithful and brutally honest, these prayers offer readers a more candid way of communicating with the God who understands human suffering with an incarnational intimacy.
Talking to God when you’re fighting serious illness can feel impossible. But God can bear our doubt, anger, anxiety, and grief. This unconventional prayerbook helps readers access a deeper relationship with God in raw times–and offers them a place of solidarity and spiritual rest.
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Finding You
$17.99Add to cartBoth of them want a relationship–but is beginning it a big mistake?
On the outside, twenty-seven-year-old Darcy Larsen is a pretty, put-together professional–but inside she’s falling apart. Eighteen months ago, she lost her fiance in an accident she still blames herself for. After a successful transplant, her kidney disease seems to be in check, but she worries that her future children–if she has any–will also suffer from the same condition. And she’s overcome with indecision about finding her birth mother, discovering potentially devastating information, and hurting her adoptive parents.
Mechanic Carter Donovan seems to have everything going for him at first glance. Stunning good looks. A wicked sense of humor. And a heart of gold. But Carter’s seemingly perfect exterior hides a host of secrets. After a rough breakup and mounting medical bills from a medical emergency that left him drowning in debt, he doesn’t feel like the catch everyone says he is. Plus, he’s about to turn thirty–with no romantic prospects on the horizon.
When Darcy’s Lexus breaks down in her doctor’s parking lot, Carter appears on the scene to try to jump-start her car–and her heart. But despite their immediate connection right from the start, the two have perhaps too many obstacles to overcome. Carter questions if getting involved with Darcy will be his next big mistake. And Darcy wonders if she can ever move past her grief and guilt to embrace the gift of Happily Ever After that’s dangling in front of her.
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Trustworthy : Thirteen Arguments For The Reliability Of The New Testament
$22.00Add to cartHow do we know the New Testament is reliable?
It matters-but discussions on whether the New Testament is historically accurate can be tedious and overwhelming. We want to be confident that the reports in the New Testament are true and dependable, but scholarly discussions around the authenticity of the events recounted in Scripture can be challenging to navigate.
Dr. Ben Shaw provides the clear introduction we’ve needed for understanding the New Testament’s historical reliability. In his book, Trustworthy, he systematically surveys key issues related to New Testament reliability and provides guidance for those setting out to explore the evidence. Concise, to-the-point chapters equip readers to answer the challenging questions one encounters when discussing the credibility of the New Testament. Addressing a wide variety of evidence including archaeology, authorship, text criticism, and non-Christian sources, Shaw leads readers through the key scholarly topics related to New Testament reliability.
Here’s the truth: we can trust the New Testament not only for its historical accuracy but also as a guide to life.
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What We Hide
$18.99Add to cartFamily secrets. Historical wrongs. And the truths that refuse to stay buried.
Savannah Webster is trying to find her way forward. She and her husband, Hez, have been separated since tragedy tore them apart and he began numbing his grief and guilt with alcohol. She returned to Tupelo Grove University, which her family helped found over a century ago, to teach history.
When Hez turns up in her classroom asking for a second chance, she rejects the idea immediately. But twenty-four hours later she’s under suspicion for murder, and since Hez is the best attorney she knows, she reluctantly asks him for help. They suspect the murder is tied to someone selling off the university’s pre-Columbia artifacts, but the secrets go much deeper than they realize.
The only hope they’ve got is each other, and they’re going to have to put their past behind them if they’re going to stay alive long enough to uncover all that’s hidden.
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Forever Matters : How The Return Of Jesus Completes You – A Devotional
$15.99Add to cartDiscover Why Your Forever Matters
If the world feels unpredictable and challenging, it might be time to explore your forever. If it feels like the news feeds and social media posts are suffocating your faith and stirring anxiety, your soul may find comfort in seeing what lies ahead.
You can know where you’re going, and you have been told what lies ahead. There is a road map of sorts, a glimpse into the future, a revelation. By peering into the only yet-to-be-fulfilled book of prophecy in the Bible, Forever Matters-a daily devotional-puts you on the road to gaining insight into the future as well as your life today through the person of God and His son, Jesus.
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Great To Good
$18.00Add to cartGreatness is overrated.
People tend to measure success by worldly standards. We assume that greatness comes from charisma, influence, and followers. But God cares more about our character than about what people around us think of our reputations.
Pastor Jae Hoon Lee challenges us not to pursue greatness but to grow in goodness. Jesus called his followers to cultivate character of goodness, not to aspire to positions of power. The faithful Christian life is one that seeks to become good. These reflections and meditations on the good Christian life unpack what it means for the church to live in obedience and faith, to strip away ambitious self-glorification, and to instead live humble lives of goodness and love.
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Message Of Malachi
$20.00Add to cartThe book of Malachi fittingly sits in Christian Bibles as the last book of the Old Testament, which it assumes, summarizes, and applies. Yet it also looks forward to the New Testament with its promises of the coming reign of God.
A striking feature of the book is the people of God’s inconsistent faithfulness. God’s people neither serve God wholeheartedly nor turn entirely away in blatant disobedience. But God persists in speaking to them, showing his grace in close proximity to their sin. Malachi reveals God’s unfailing love and reminds God’s people to keep this conviction central.
Part of the beloved Bible Speaks Today series, The Message of Malachi offers an insightful, readable exposition of the biblical text and thought-provoking discussion of how its meaning relates to contemporary life. Used by students and teachers around the world, the Bible Speaks Today commentaries are ideal for those studying or preaching the Bible and anyone who wants to delve deeper into the text.
This revised edition of a classic volume features lightly updated language, current NIV Scripture quotations, and a new interior design.
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Message Of Zechariah
$20.00Add to cartZechariah is imbued from beginning to end with the same heart cry that Jesus turned into a prayer for the world: “Your kingdom come.”
In this volume, Barry G. Webb explores the kingdom of God as the prophet Zechariah apprehended it. In oracles and visions Zechariah challenged his hearers to return to the coming kingdom, to cleanse themselves in anticipation of the cleansing fountain of God’s grace, and to restore the city of Jerusalem in preparation for its coming glorification. The promises of God in the book of Zechariah are meant to fuel the faithfulness of God’s people and prepare the way for the promised Messiah.
Part of the beloved Bible Speaks Today series, The Message of Zechariah offers an insightful, readable exposition of the biblical text and thought-provoking discussion of how its meaning relates to contemporary life. Used by students and teachers around the world, the Bible Speaks Today commentaries are ideal for those studying or preaching the Bible and anyone who wants to delve deeper into the text. This revised edition of a classic volume features lightly updated language, current NIV Scripture quotations, and a new interior design.
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Message Of Joel Micah And Habakkuk
$25.00Add to cartWhere is God in times of disaster? How can God allow suffering? What are God’s people to do about moral decay in society? People throughout the ages have pondered these questions, and three of the Bible’s minor prophets-Joel, Micah, and Habakkuk-offer special insight on these perennial problems.
David Prior’s passage-by-passage exposition of these three books provides careful study and measured application for today’s church. The people of Joel’s day were devastated by a locust plague, which Joel said warned of the coming Day of the Lord. Micah rebuked a culture of corruption and moral evil. Habakkuk cried out to the Lord on account of a society bent on violence. All three point to a transcendent God who gives hope in times of uncertainty.
Part of the beloved Bible Speaks Today series, The Message of Joel, Micah and Habakkuk offers an insightful, readable exposition of the biblical text and thought-provoking discussion of how its meaning relates to contemporary life. Used by students and teachers around the world, the Bible Speaks Today commentaries are ideal for those studying or preaching the Bible and anyone who wants to delve deeper into the text. This revised edition of a classic volume features lightly updated language and a new interior design.
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Message Of Hosea
$20.00Add to cartWhy would God ask one of his prophets to marry a prostitute? Because he wanted to teach Hosea, the nation of Israel, and all of us today a lesson we will not forget, a lesson that is painful yet joyous.
Hosea’s somber portrait of the human condition is our lesson in pain. All of us have been unfaithful, forsaking God and his ways. Yet Hosea’s clear illustration of God’s love for us brings joy. While we are yet sinners, God comes to us and loves us.
Derek Kidner imaginatively takes us through the unfolding story of Hosea and his wife, Gomer, explaining the basic message, pointing out its subtleties, and encouraging us to live lives worthy of the God who loves the loveless.
Part of the beloved Bible Speaks Today series, The Message of Hosea offers an insightful, readable exposition of the biblical text and thought-provoking discussion of how its meaning relates to contemporary life. Used by students and teachers around the world, the Bible Speaks Today commentaries are ideal for those studying or preaching the Bible and anyone who wants to delve deeper into the text. This revised edition of a classic volume features lightly updated language and a new interior design.
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Message Of Ezekiel
$30.00Add to cartEzekiel comes to us as a stranger from a distant time and land. Who is this man? He is a priest who, on his thirtieth birthday, has a dazzling vision of God on a wheeled throne; an odd prophet who engages in outlandish street theater and speaks for God on international affairs; and a seer who paints murals of apocalyptic doom and then of a restored temple bursting with emblems of paradise. Should we take this literally, reading the text as we read the news or a history textbook? Or is there a better way?
Christopher Wright masterfully opens our eyes to see and understand the message of Ezekiel. Ezekiel’s vision of the glory of God-its departure and return-is set first within Israel’s history and then in the culmination of God’s promises in Christ. Embedded in the pattern of the strange and the wonderful is a word that still speaks to God’s people today.
Part of the beloved Bible Speaks Today series, The Message of Ezekiel offers an insightful, readable exposition of the biblical text and thought-provoking discussion of how its meaning relates to contemporary life. Used by students and teachers around the world, the Bible Speaks Today commentaries are ideal for those studying or preaching the Bible and anyone who wants to delve deeper into the text. This revised edition of a classic volume features lightly updated language and a new interior design.
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Disarming Leviathan : Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor
$18.00Add to cartMinistering to Christian Nationalists
Pastor Caleb Campbell has watched as Christian nationalism has taken over large swaths of the United States. And he’s suffered the relational fallout of standing against it, both in his community and his church. While it’s possible to be both a Christian and hold Christian nationalist ideas, Christian nationalism itself is an un-Christian worldview, rooted in ideas about power, race, and property that are irreconcilable with Christian faith. Campbell has come to see himself as a missionary to Christian nationalists, reaching out to them with the love and freedom of Jesus Christ.
In Disarming Leviathan, Campbell equips Christians to minister to their Christian nationalist neighbors. He introduces the basics of Christian nationalism and explores the reasons so many people are attracted to it. He also addresses a variety of American Christian nationalist talking points and offers questions and responses that humbly subvert these claims and cultivate deeper, heart-level conversations.
Christian nationalism is an established feature of the American landscape. Disarming Leviathan can help prepare us to confront it with compassion and hospitality, and with the truth of the good news of Jesus.
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End Of The Spectator Church Companion Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartGet in the Game!
In God’s Kingdom, each of us is called to be a player in His plans. We are all equipped by His Spirit to carry out a specific function to see souls saved and lives transformed by His power. Since the Day of Pentecost, believers from all walks of life have had access to the Spirit’s empowerment and the responsibility to get in the game.
Rick’s friend and Bible teacher, Tony Cooke, wrote about the believer’s divine purpose to be fully awakened and activated for such a time as this in his book The End of Spectator Church, and Rick sat down with Tony to interview him about it. In this five-part series, they discuss:
What it means that it is the end of “spectator Church.”What God expects YOU to do in these last days in the Church.How to identify the part you are to play in God’s end-time game.How to activate the gift that God has placed in your life.
Join Rick Renner and Tony Cooke as they reveal how the Holy Spirit empowers you to stop being a spectator and to become a participator in God’s plans!
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Overcomers Bible Study Guide Plus Streaming Video (Student/Study Guide)
$21.99Add to cartIn An Overwhelming World, We Can Be Overcomers
For the last 2,000 years, the book of Revelation has given courage–not fear–to Christians around the world. In this 8-session video Bible study (video access included), bestselling author and pastor Matt Chandler will explore the book of Revelation and what it’s teaching us about the days we live in now, about the body of believers, and about Christ, our King.
You’ll visit each chapter in Revelation, discovering how Jesus, on His throne, has already secured the victory over the enemy and what that means to our generation today.
As a member of the church that carries on the mission of the first churches, you are an overcomer–a believer who is empowered by the work and authority of Jesus Christ.
This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including:
*The study guide itself–with discussion and reflection questions, video notes, and a leader’s guide.
*An individual access code to stream all video sessions online. (You don’t need to buy a DVD!)
Sessions and video run times:
1. You Were Made for This Day (16:00)
2. Your Ultimate Reality (18:30)
3. Your Strength in Christ (21:30)
4. Your Witness to the World (25:00)
5. Your Enemy in Focus (20:00)
6. Your Family in Faith (20:30)
7. Your Cultural Caution (15:00)
8. Your New Home (21:00)Streaming video access code included. Access code subject to expiration after 12/31/2028. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside
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Compelling Convictions : Finding Our Future In A Modern World
$35.99Add to cartA fresh look at our core values
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In the twenty years since a group of Brethren in Christ pastors, educators, administrators, and laypeople first met to identify ten core values for the North American church, much has changed–including the continuing decline of the church in the west; dynamic social movements for racial, gender, and economic justice; vast advances in technology, and a worldwide pandemic.With so much happening on both the national and international stages, it seems vital that we as Brethren in Christ prayerfully reflect not only on our core values and their application, but on how those values might help our churches engage a dramatically new social context. Are these values merely sentimental slogans? Or do they constitute compelling convictions, genuine guiding lights orienting us and motivating our mission in a rapidly changing world? The answer to that all-important question depends largely on how we use them. In this forward-looking book, essays from Brethren in Christ pastors and leaders from across the globe call us into the future of the church–to unleash our creative energies, roll up our sleeves, and put these core values to good use.
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Parenting : 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family With
$22.99Add to cartPaul David Tripp’s Bestselling Book on Parenting, Now with Study Questions
Sometimes parents wish there was a guaranteed formula for raising good kids-a certain list of rules to follow to ensure they’d have obedient children. But if moms and dads view their role through the lens of God’s grace, they will see that the gospel must first shape how they parent before they can effectively shape their children.
In the bestselling book Parenting, Paul David Tripp unfolds a more biblical perspective on parenting than merely adhering to a list of rules. He lays out 14 gospel-centered principles that will radically change the way parents think about what it means to raise up a child, informing everything they do as a parent. This edition includes a section of engaging study questions for every chapter, helping individuals and groups reflect on each topic in greater depth.
Downloadable study questions are available for free.
*Christ-Centered Advice for Families: Explains how the gospel should affect the way parents interact with their children at every age
*Engaging Study Questions: Reflect on each chapter alone or as part of a small group
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Special Kids Chosen Moms
$15.99Add to cartAre you raising or caring for a special needs child? Help and inspiration from someone who has “been there and done that” is at hand-a mom who learned “on the job” by caring for her blind, severely developmentally delayed, and medically fragile son.
Born out of experience, this practical yet full-of-heart manual will help mothers navigate the demands of the medical world, as well as organize their home routines to better care for their child. Beyond the practical, it is a heart-warming reminder that God has a plan for your life.
You’ll find:
*Advice for organizing your medical and insurance information
*Ideas for streamlining your home life and schedule
*Suggestions for recipes for the table as well as a successful marriage
*Help with cradle to grave necessities
*Encouragement, Scriptures, and resources to ease the load.God chose you specifically to raise and love your child and wants you to keep your eyes on him and not your circumstances. -Sandra Nieto
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Toward The Dawn
$29.99Add to cartDespite trials that threaten their path forward, hope dawns for a future filled with love.
Kat Wadsworth and Sebastian Jones never imagined their lives would entwine so closely. Forced to flee on a wagon train from a vengeful uncle and an unknown gunman, they live in a hidden canyon with the family that rescued them. But as the days turn into months, they each have separate reasons for wanting to move back to society, and the best way to the independence they desperately crave might be through a marriage of convenience.
However, settling into their homestead in Cheyenne, Wyoming, reveals a different reality for Kat. Her new husband becomes consumed by his inventions, leaving her feeling lonely and isolated. And just when they think they’ve left the danger behind, a mysterious attacker lurks in the shadows, threatening the new life they’ve built. Together, they must confront the perils from their pasts to forge a future with hope and the prospect of love.
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Dont Take Your Elephant To School
$16.99Add to cartHave you ever thought about the rules a lion would need to follow in school? Or considered the worst thing about a queue?
You haven’t? Then these poems are for you?
In this collection of over 70 poems, Steve Turner returns to much of the word play and wit of his best-selling The Day I Fell Down the Toilet. Using the alphabet as a framework, he has written three poems for each letter (including X and Z!). This highly entertaining book will delight all Turner fans and teachers will appreciate the varied poetry forms (shape, limerick, nonsense, free, rhyming, etc).
The fun, witty poems – often written from a thought-provoking point of view – cover such diverse subjects as aardvarks, cars, sausages, love and yo-yos, so there’s sure to be something to interest both boys and girls.
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Dad Youre Not Funny And Other Poems
$16.99Add to cartThe second hilarious poetry collection from the author of The Day I Fell Down the ToiletThe second hilarious poetry collection from the author of The Day I Fell Down the Toilet
Have you ever formed a secret club with friends? Or witnessed the flight of a cow?
Have you ever heard a duck whistle? You haven’t? Then read this book now.As always, Steve Turner’s poems present a fresh and quirky view on life. Many of the poems in this collection are about childhood: school and holidays, dreams and monsters, food, friends…
This collection of over seventy poems will entertain and interest children both in the classroom and at home. The themes and ideas are thought-provoking as well as witty and fun, and the entertaining cartoons reflect the mood of the poems.
Steve Turner is the award-winning author of the best-selling poetry collection The Day I Fell Down the Toilet.
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Hidden In The Night
$29.99Add to cartAt the behest of her ailing mother, former FBI special agent turned rare-book collector Ivy Elliott arrives in Alaska to secure an unpublished Jack London manuscript kept secreted away for decades. But when she arrives, she learns the manuscript is gone–taken by the granddaughter of the woman who possessed it. Ivy sets off in pursuit, not just to save the manuscript but to save the vulnerable girl, who was previously trafficked and has no idea what she’s getting herself into.
Joining forces with Alaska State Trooper Nolan Long, Ivy must battle a blizzard, sabotage, and the worst of an Alaskan winter as the search goes on. But every answer they find only raises more questions–and the danger to their lives and to the missing girl may only be the tip of the iceberg.
Don’t miss this breathtaking race for truth set amid the glorious–and deadly–Glacier Bay from USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Goddard.
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Sacred Scars : Resting In God’s Promise That Your Past Is Not Wasted
$39.99Add to cartWe all endure trials, pain, and hardship in this life. The enemy often uses those experiences to convince us that our brokenness disqualifies us from ever being used by God again–that we can no longer be a testimony because of our emotional or physical scars. The truth is, your past pain and brokenness actually serve as preparation for what God wants to do in you and through you, if you will but surrender to and trust in him.
In Sacred Scars, neuropsychologist and fellow sufferer Dr. Michelle Bengtson helps you:
*understand suffering through a biblical perspective
*discover how the trials of your life serve a purpose
*reflect on the healing that God has accomplished
*comfort others with the comfort God has given youJust as Jesus’s scars didn’t disappear after his resurrection, our scars tell our story and lend credence to our testimony of the love and power of God. If you are ready to turn your past pain into present comfort and future hope, let Dr. Bengtson be your compassionate guide.
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1 Last Chance
$29.99Add to cartAxel Mulligan was built to be a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. He swam fast and endured long, a miracle for those in peril–until a tragedy sent him home to Alaska. Now, three years later, he’s not going to let the past repeat itself. As an Air One rescue swimmer, he’ll do anything to save lives–including sacrifice his own.
He expects to do just that while trying to rescue a group of tourists from the icy waters of the Gulf of Alaska. But if not for the voice on the other end of the ham radio, he might have given up and let hypothermia win. That voice awakened something in his heart, and he sets out to find the woman it belongs to.
Flynn Turnquist is not who Axel thinks she is. A national wildlife researcher, she’s deep in the bush, tracking wolf pack patterns. Or is she? In fact, she’s a former cop, tracking down a serial killer. She nearly had him–until he escaped into the wilds of the Alaska bush.
When Axel finds Flynn and discovers what she’s really up to, it stirs up a terrible nightmare he’s been dodging for years–the kidnapping and death of his own cousin. Worse, he’s led the killer right to her doorstep. Now, it’s a race through Alaska to stay alive. And when tragedy strikes again, he must choose between rescue or redemption.
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Trust The Whisper
$39.99Add to cartEver feel like it’s easier to believe we’ll meet God in the afterlife than it is to feel God at work in this life, with its chores and schedules and messes and unrealized dreams? The truth is, God is at work every day of our lives, but because this work is quieter than we expect, we so often dismiss it as coincidence or chance. What if we could clearly understand those divine whispers? What if listening to them is the beginning of living out our truest story and purpose?
In Trust the Whisper, Kathy Izard shares compelling true stories that help you connect the “God Dots” in your life. Sharing her own and others’ experiences of moving from a place of doubt that a higher power even exists to being certain about the divine weave in the world, Kathy offers you the courage to recognize God’s guidance in your own life. She helps you ask the right questions, trust your deepest intuition, be powerfully present, embrace the unexpected, and risk believing in the dreams God is quietly urging you to follow.
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Radicals And Reformers
$34.99Add to cartWith Bibles and baptism, a movement was born.
From renegade gatherings of Christian believers in the 1500s to a global communion of more than 2.1 million members, the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement has been marked by faithfulness and failure, continuity and conflict, radicalism and reformation. In this engaging history, Radicals and Reformers traces the origins and development of the Anabaptist and Mennonite movements from their beginnings in Europe through their spread across the globe.
In this new authoritative introduction to Anabaptist history, historian Troy Osborne reflects on the ways that Anabaptists have defined their identity in new settings and in response to new theological, intellectual, geographic, and political contexts. Drawing from current scholarship and a range of written and visual sources, this book provides an overview of how Mennonites from Zurich to Zimbabwe have adapted to or resisted the world around them.
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Engaging With Thomas Aquinas
$77.99Add to cartThe influence of Thomas Aquinas on Western theology is beyond dispute, yet his is a contested legacy. In current evangelical studies, there is an emerging infatuation with Thomas, especially as far as his theological metaphysics is concerned.
On the occasion of the eighth centenary of Thomas Aquinas, Engaging with Thomas Aquinas is a thoughtful introduction aimed at presenting the main contours of the doctor’s complex legacy and critically evaluating it, especially in areas where the “Roman Catholic” Thomas eclipses the “classical” theology which is attracting renewed attention in evangelical circles.
Engaging with Thomas Aquinas contributes a thoughtful analysis from an evangelical viewpoint, offering answers to complex questions such as:
– Is the thought of Thomas and Thomism(s) the same?
– What strengths and dangers does the legacy of Thomas Aquinas present to evangelical thought?
– How can Rome’s chief doctor be, at the same time, a reference point for evangelical theology?
In this book, De Chirico offers an evangelical a framework to think through this contested thinker’s legacy, as well as an invitation to the inquiring reader to consider an alternative.
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Vital Signs : 20 Ways To Put Whole-life Discipleship At The Heart Of Your C
$28.99Add to cartEveryone knows disciplemaking in churches is important – vital, even. But how do we move from good intentions to real transformation?
Drawing on LICC’s engagement with thousands of UK churches and his decades of experience as a church leader, Ken Benjamin offers 20 ways to put whole-life discipleship at the heart of our churches – 20 vital signs of disciplemaking life. Together, they’ll help you grow a culture that equips people to live out their faith in every part of life, not just through church activities.
The key is not to add to our stretched to-do lists, but to permeate everything we already do with new, refreshing perspective. Whole-life disciplemaking should be embedded rather than added, built in rather than bolted on. When this happens, the effect is life-changing – not only for congregations and church leaders but for the individuals, organisations and places they seek to serve.
Vital Signs works in tandem with LICC’s online assessment tool, training videos and resources to help leadership teams assess, embed and maintain whole-life discipleship in the churches they serve. Discover more at licc.org.uk/vitalsigns .
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Complete Bible Answer Book Collectors Edition Revised And Expanded
$29.99Add to cartWe all have questions about the Bible–whether we have read it or not. Join the nearly 400,000 people who have looked to The Complete Bible Answer Book for answers about the Bible, Christian beliefs, life problems, and what God’s Word says about current issues.
This comprehensive guide covers more than 170 of the top questions people have asked Bible teacher and theologian Hank Hanegraaff, aka the Bible Answer Man, over the last 40 years. Revised and expanded topics include:
*creation and our existence
*spiritual gifts
*the secret to effective prayers
*religions and cults
*the resurrection and afterlife
*and many more issues vital to a better understanding of God and living a spiritually nourishing life.Each question is answered in Hanegraaff’s scholarly yet approachable style and also includes additional resources for those who want to explore the topics further.
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Science Of Supernatural Thinking
$26.99Add to cartDo Your Thoughts Invite the Demonic or the Divine?
Is your mind clouded with thoughts of depression or anxiety, even anger or bitterness? Have you tried to rise up and renew your mind only to be weighed down by exhaustion or laid low by hopelessness?
The truth is that what you think controls who has access to your mind. Even seemingly harmless thoughts can open gates in your mind that allow the enemy to secretly infiltrate, build strongholds, and turn your mind to wage war against the very One that you long to serve.
But what’s been opened can always be closed.
Having helped multitudes experience spiritual freedom from demonic forces, Jareb Nott shows how you can seal off the powers of darkness from your mind and tear down their strongholds, empowering you to think thoughts that host the peace, presence, and power of God. Through scientific and biblical research, he offers a step-by-step process to help you transform your mind into a supernaturally impenetrable fortress of hope and joy!
In this revolutionary yet practical book, Jareb not only exposes the enemy’s insidious strategies for infecting your mind, but he also reveals how to:
*Silence the enemy’s tormenting thoughts.
*Think the kind of thoughts that host God’s presence.
*Wield the power of biblical meditation, prayer, and intercession to renew your mind.
*Build supernatural strongholds in your mind that open the gates of Heaven.
*Protect your life and mind from the powers of darkness.
*And more!A deeper dimension of fellowship and encounter with the Holy Spirit awaits you! Stop empowering the darkness to dominate your thoughts. It’s time to dominate the darkness–and flood your mind with the transforming light of God’s presence.
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Loving Your Black Neighbor As Yourself
$17.00Add to cartDiscover a boundless love for your Black Neighbor with this inspiring and actionable guide to moving toward racial healing.
“Griffin’s work invites us to embark on a transformative journey toward a more inclusive and loving Christian community.”-J. W. Buck, PhD, author of Everyday Activism
Jesus calls you to love your neighbor, and in the fight against racial injustice, that call includes your Black Neighbor: your Black colleagues, the Black congregants at church, the Black family in your neighborhood. Yet maybe you’re unsure of how best to show your love, or maybe you fear either saying or doing the wrong thing.
In Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself, Chante Griffin equips you to see and love your Black Neighbor with God’s deep, holistic love. Using Black Love Lenses birthed from African American cultural values, you’ll learn meaningful ways through which you can see and care for your Black Neighbor:
*Intimacy: cultivate intentional closeness and community
*Honor: show overflowing respect and love
*Stand Up: use your voice and influence to advocate
*God’s Gifts: allow God’s resources to flow through you
*The Spirit of Love: love lavishly through intercessory prayersThrough guided readings, prayers, and heart checks, you’ll undergo a spiritual and relational transformation that grows a deeper love for your Black Neighbor and yourself. Are you ready to answer Jesus’s call?
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Numbers 1-19
$53.99Add to cartThis detailed and comprehensive commentary by L. Michael Morales sheds fresh light on a part of the Bible often referenced yet rarely preached and understood.
Often overlooked and regularly misunderstood, the Book of Numbers is a daunting prospect for scholars, preachers and students. It covers part of the Israelites’ wilderness years between Egypt and the land of the promise – seemingly very different to and detached from our modern context. Yet God’s covenant love remains the same, and the book of Numbers remains extremely relevant for ecclesiology and for the church’s life within the already-not yet of the present ‘wilderness’ era. In his magisterial new commentary, Morales carefully demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Numbers, it’s positive vision for life and the surprising challenge it offers to contemporary Christians. This detailed and comprehensive commentary sheds fresh light on a part of the Bible often referenced yet rarely preached and explained.
The Apollos Old Testament Commentary aims to take with equal seriousness the divine and human aspects of Scripture. It expounds the books of the Old Testament in a scholarly manner, accessible to non-experts, and it shows the relevance of the Old Testament to modern readers. Written by an international team of scholars, these commentaries are intended to serve the needs of those who preach from the Old Testament, as well as scholars and all serious students of the Bible. Volume 1 begins with an Introduction which gives an overview of the issues of date, authorship, sources and outlines the theology of the book, providing pointers towards its interpretation and contemporary application. An annotated Translation of the Hebrew text by L. Michael L. Morales forms the basis for his comments Within this commentary on Numbers 1-19, Form and Structure sections examine the context, source-critical and form-critical issues and rhetorical devices of each passage. Comment sections offer thorough, detailed exegesis of the historical and theological meaning of each passage, and Explanation sections offer a full exposition of the theological message within the framework of biblical theology and a commitment to the inspiration and authority of the Old Testament.
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Acts Of The Apostles
$19.99Add to cartAlthough often treated as mere background history to the letters of Paul and other biblical writings, the book of Acts possesses its own unique theological message. Richard Thompson, in this latest volume of the Reading and Interpreting the Bible Series, explores the distinctive characteristics of this remarkable book and guides readers in its interpretation using pivotal Scripture passages as illustrations. From speeches and summaries to repetition and characterization, Dr. Thompson examines each literary feature and demonstrates its effect on the meaning and application of the text. Each chapter further concludes with helpful questions designed to review the topic at hand and encourage deeper reflection. For additional study, an extensive bibliography completes this exceptional resource.
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Why Hell : Three Christian Views Critically Examined
$22.99Add to cartMost people believe that hell is the final state of the condemned following the final judgment. At the same time, many people cannot comprehend why God created hell for the unsaved. Respected church fathers held a variety of views dating back to the early centuries of the church. This book explains views on why hell exists: unending suffering, the annihilation of the unrepentant, and the rehabilitation of the lost. Most Christians are unaware of the scriptural basis for each of these positions. Why Hell? is meant to educate the interested reader without advocating for any one point of view. The following are some of the book’s features:
*Biblical vocabulary of hell and positions held throughout early Christian history
*Positive cases presented on three perspectives: traditionalist, conditionalist, and restorationist
*Critiques of each view
*Helpful charts at the back of the book that summarize and cross-examine the arguments for each view
Steve Gregg provides food for thought for both trained theologians and serious Christian readers who want all the data and then consider for themselves the consequences of three Christian perspectives on hell.
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Compelling Convictions : Finding Our Future In A Modern World
$19.99Add to cartA fresh look at our core values
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In the twenty years since a group of Brethren in Christ pastors, educators, administrators, and laypeople first met to identify ten core values for the North American church, much has changed–including the continuing decline of the church in the west; dynamic social movements for racial, gender, and economic justice; vast advances in technology, and a worldwide pandemic.With so much happening on both the national and international stages, it seems vital that we as Brethren in Christ prayerfully reflect not only on our core values and their application, but on how those values might help our churches engage a dramatically new social context. Are these values merely sentimental slogans? Or do they constitute compelling convictions, genuine guiding lights orienting us and motivating our mission in a rapidly changing world? The answer to that all-important question depends largely on how we use them. In this forward-looking book, essays from Brethren in Christ pastors and leaders from across the globe call us into the future of the church–to unleash our creative energies, roll up our sleeves, and put these core values to good use.
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Tending Tomorrow : Courageous Change For People And Planet
$19.99Add to cartThe future is uncertain. But flourishing doesn’t have to be.
We know without a doubt the power of humans to change the earth in lasting ways. Climate change is not a niche issue: it is the unfolding story of our embodied lives. As we join in with the groaning of creation, we wonder, How will we and coming generations make our home in an inhospitable future?
In the face of environmental and social upheaval, Tending Tomorrow lays out a path for Christians worried about our collective future and seeking courage and inspiration for the journey ahead. Drawing on metaphors from the natural world, author Leah Reesor-Keller offers foundational, transformative practices for leaders and communities to foster healthier cultures during a time of ecological devastation. When we dig into the roots of faith and culture, and envision new interactions and patterns, we plant seeds of change. Seeds that ignite courageous imagination. Seeds that repair injustice. Seeds that nurture a tomorrow where possibilities bloom and people and planet flourish.
Like mycorrhizal networks of fungi in a forest, we can build nourishing webs of connection to sustain ourselves and future generations. As we bravely and humbly cultivate healing and reconciliation, good, liberating, and flourishing things will emerge.
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Holy Spirit Your Amazing Helper Companion Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartAn Ever-Present Help
Jesus may have ascended into Heaven, but He didn’t leave you on your own without a guide! Jesus promised that another Helper – the Holy Spirit – would come and abide in you. When you have the Holy Spirit living inside you and you are sensitive to His voice, your life will be forever changed!
In The Holy Spirit – Your Amazing Helper, you will learn the following:
The Holy Spirit is the One who is just like Jesus.The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth.The Holy Spirit is the Teacher and Revealer.The Holy Spirit is the Great Treasure Hunter.
In this eye-opening series, Denise Renner highlights the attributes of the Holy Spirit and shows how He is present to assist you each and every day.
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Dont Sink Your Own Ship
$22.99Add to cartDon’t Sink Your Own Ship equips believers with simple truths for living fulfilling lives, because sometimes it’s all too easy to sail into trouble unnecessarily. In this lighthearted guide, bestselling author and Bible teacher, Max Anders, gives powerfully practical insights that, if heeded, can keep you afloat in even the most treacherous of seas.
Generously punctuated by interesting and sometimes outrageous stories, Max walks readers through 20 spiritual lessons, providing biblical clarity on problems we all face. Each lesson includes application questions, scripture references, and recommended reading. The book’s format and the teaching guideline included at the end make this an ideal small group resource.
Whether you read this book individually or as a group, you’ll get a fresh grip on transforming truths, like:
*The small stuff in life will build up to become big stuff, if you let it.
*We become what we think about.
*We are created for love. It’s the principle of existence and its only end.
*Success is being faithful to what God asks of us and leaving the results to Him
*Unless we are willing to forgive, our wounds will never heal.Truth seekers, new Christians, and established Christians alike will benefit from the simple reminders that this book provides. You don’t have to learn your lessons the hard way.
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Connect To Your Calling
$12.00Add to cartBestselling author Bishop T.D. Jakes shares this essential guide to recognizing, understanding, and utilizing your spiritual instincts to find God’s calling in your life.
Each of us has innate instincts that drive our actions, our feelings, and our desires. Learning to recognize, understand, and act on those instincts can help each of us reach for the opportunities and step into the purpose for which God has called us.
This compact digest by #1 New York Times bestseller T. D. Jakes will inspire you to identity and understand the longings and interests at the core of who you are. It then guides you to use those passions to uncover your goals, intentions, and deepest desires.
The profound but easy-to-apply lessons in this short book will help you evaluate your gifts and talents and walk boldly into your calling and a life of purpose.
Derived from material previously published in Instinct.
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Art Of Being A Creature
$25.00Add to cartFrom AI to the Anthropocene, technological power has pushed human life to the limits. It’s at those limits that we’re faced again with the questions of who we are and how we should live. What if a study of the soil, the humus from which humanity came, could shed light on our condition? What if attending to the soil could teach us something about how we should live? In The Art of Being a Creature, Ragan Sutterfield explores these questions in conversation with the ground. Turning a compost pile while meditating on kenosis or reflecting on St. Bernard while examining fungal hyphae, Sutterfield seeks to recover the practice of humility by looking at the humus. The path toward being fully human, he finds, is not to be discovered through a spiritual seeking in the heavens, but through a pilgrimage to the soil beneath our feet. Anyone who reads The Art of Being a Creature will never see the soil, or their life upon it, the same again.
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Glimmer And Shine
$15.99Add to cartIn Glimmer and Shine: 365 Devotions to Inspire, author and award-winning recording artist Natalie Grant challenges and inspires girls ages 8 and up to be their best selves through daily devotions filled with Bible verses, thought-provoking readings, prayers, and interactive weekend pages that include quizzes, coloring pages, and more.
Glimmer and Shine:
*Will guide readers to be confident and have fun when they decide to follow Jesus
*Will foster a growth in faith and trust in God even when we may not know where he is leading
*Gives encouragement to be brave and strong
*Is the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day, Easter, birthdays, or any holiday gift-giving.
This 365-day devotional has beautifully designed, interactive pages and a fun cover. Glimmer and Shine speaks directly to every type of girl, encouraging each individual reader to take a journey!
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Beekeeper Next Door
$7.99Add to cartFacing his fear
Could give him the family he’s always wanted.
Returning to his hometown to clean up his late parents’ home, professor Heath Underwood has no intention of making his stay permanent. Especially when he discovers his neighbor is a beekeeper. But avoiding widow Ali Harding proves difficult when her eight-year-old son bonds with him and his dog. As Heath spends more time with them, his fear of bees–and heartbreak–could stand in the way of his happily-ever-after…
From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
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Demystifying The Prophetic
$24.99Add to cartProphecy has been misused, misunderstood, and misguided for far too long. As a result, many believers have become skeptical of spiritual gifts and the supernatural, leaving them ignorant to their full inheritance, and vulnerable to attacks from the Enemy.
In response, author, teacher, and prophet, Joseph Z offers profound biblical insight and practical applications to help give you a healthy approach to hearing God, following His supernatural leading, and interpreting prophecy and other supernatural encounters.
Joseph will teach you how to:*allow the Word of God to be your plumbline
*implement sound practices of interpretation
*look for the testimony of Jesus in prophetic words and encounters
*examine and understand patterns of prophecy
*make decisions based on the Word of God
*chase after the Lord Himself, not prophetic words or mystical experiencesThe principles and practices in this book will help you reclaim your biblical, prophetic inheritance and walk in the fullness of your identity in Christ!
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Not Finished Yet
$16.00Add to cartSometimes, you see, Wren and Gran didn’t paint flowers or clouds or birds or trees.
Sometimes they painted their feelings.
She and Gran called it “painting prayers.”Gran’s art studio is one of Wren’s favorite places in the world. Not only is it where Wren and Gran paint, but it’s also where they talk about all the good and hard stuff of life-to each other, and to God. Join young Wren as she explores her feelings and discovers that God welcomes our honest prayers.
This gentle story by bestselling Christian novelist Sharon Garlough Brown, paired with exquisite illustrations from Jessica Linn Evans, will be enjoyed by children as well as the adults who read with them. Also included is a note from the author to encourage further conversation about the content.
Discover IVP Kids and share with children the things that matter to God!
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Diary Of An Old Soul Annotated Edition
$30.00Add to cartIn 1880, George MacDonald self-published a long poem in book form-seven-line stanzas for each day of the year expressing his longings, struggles, and joys in everyday life. Now in this deluxe edition, the complete text of MacDonald’s classic devotional resource is available with blank journaling pages and new annotations by Timothy Larsen.
“Be thou the well by which I lie and rest;
Be thou my tree of life, my garden ground;
Be thou my home, my fire, my chamber blest,
My book of wisdom, loved of all the best;
Oh, be my friend, each day still newer found,
As the eternal days and nights go round!
Nay, nay-thou art my God, in whom all loves are bound!”In 1880, the prolific author George MacDonald self-published a long poem in book form as a gift for his friends. He called it, in full, A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul. It contained a new seven-line stanza for each day of the calendar year, written as prayers expressing MacDonald’s longings, struggles, and joys in everyday life.
The Diary was originally printed with a blank page facing every page of poetry so that readers could supplement MacDonald’s diary with their own. This feature in particular, along with the spiritual wisdom and literary artistry of the text itself, was beloved by C. S. Lewis, who gave a copy of the book to his future wife, Joy Davidman, as a Christmas gift in 1952.
Now in this deluxe edition, MacDonald’s classic devotional resource is again available with the blank pages he envisioned alongside the complete text. With a new introduction and explanatory notes by historian Timothy Larsen, the beloved writer’s prayers find new life for enthusiasts and first-time readers alike.
*Complete text of MacDonald’s classic work-one poem for each day of the year
*Thoughtful layout with a blank page for journaling opposite each poem
*Introduction and annotations by historian Timothy Larsen
*Deluxe features including cloth binding and bookmark ribbon -
Rachel Friedman Breaks The Rules
$7.99Add to cartIntroducing a charming chapter book series starring Rachel Friedman, a sweet and silly Jewish girl renowned for her peanut butter challah baking skills and larger-than-life personality!
Rachel loves being Jewish, but she hates following the rules at synagogue–and everywhere else. To encourage her to see the value of rules, Rachel and her father strike a deal: If Rachel can stick to the rules for one whole week, she can go to a meet and greet for her favorite gymnast!
But when Rachel finds herself in a tricky situation that forces her to choose between following the rules or doing what she believes is right, she learns that some rules are worth breaking. And yet, when the consequences of her rule breaking spin out of control, she learns that some rules are still worth following.
Sarah Kapit creates a refreshing chapter book heroine in Rachel Friedman, featuring her Jewish identity, ADHD, and personality with care. The book also features Genevieve Kote’s adorable illustrations throughout.
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Prophetic Reset : 40 Days To Aligning With God’s Plan For Your Life
$19.99Add to cartGod is doing a new thing–be ready for it!
Join prophetic leader and pastor Joshua Giles for a 40-day journey unlike any other–one that will reposition you under God’s powerful anointing, deepen your relationship with Him, and propel you forward. Through empowering Scriptures, biblical insights, and prophetic tips, you’ll revitalize your spiritual life, discovering how to:
*reactivate your spiritual gifts and faith
*release the old to seek Him anew
*rest your mind in His counsel
*hear His words and wisdom for your next season
*witness His word manifest in your life
*reset your heart and relationships
*realign your will with God’s and return to His promises for youJust as God used 40 days to consecrate Moses on Sinai and Jesus in the wilderness, He will use it to consecrate you, too. Now is your appointed time for your prophetic reset.
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Who We Are And What We Believe Companion Reader
$12.99Add to cartClear answers to common questions.
This small, simple, and shareable book about The United Methodist Church is a helpful reference guide to everything that makes The UMC distinctive. Written in a clear, accessible style by Laceye Warner, Who We Are and What We Believe: 50 Questions about the UMC contains answers to fifty common questions about who United Methodists are, what we believe and practice, and what sets us apart. Use it alone or as a companion to Knowing Who We Are: The Wesleyan Way of Grace.
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Knowing Who We Are Leader Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$15.99Add to cartDiscover what sets United Methodism apart.
The Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the six-week study, including session plans, activities, discussion questions, and multiple format options. Components include a book, Knowing Who We Are, and video teaching sessions featuring Laceye Warner, making this perfect as a group study throughout the year. A companion book, Who We Are and What We Believe: 50 Questions about The UMC, is also available. In this book, Laceye C. Warner invites you to a richer understanding of Wesleyan Christianity so you can have a clear sense of identity, better express your own beliefs, and deepen your connection with The United Methodist Church. She introduces you to important values and characteristics that make the Wesleyan way distinctive, including emphasizing God’s grace for all and sanctification as tangible transformation in your life, your community, and all creation. You’ll see how The United Methodist Church today is deeply rooted in the Christian tradition and a legacy of care, compassion, and active response to injustice in the world. And you’ll find that Christian faith in the Wesleyan tradition holds together personal faith and community life, along with a commitment to justice through ministry and service. Pick up this book and study it with your small group and discover a way of being Christian that fills you with joy, moves you to follow Jesus wholeheartedly, and spurs you to live with compassion and grace.
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I Am A Woman
$32.99Add to cartIt’s time for women to reclaim what makes them uniquely female and affirm God’s breathtaking design for womanhood.
“Wake up!” cries Jennifer Strickland in this bracing call to women. With womanhood itself under a withering cultural attack, this is no time for Christians to stand teary-eyed on the sidelines.
Men are invading women’s sports and even bathrooms, while schools indoctrinate children in lies about gender fluidity. The assault of insanity on reality took normal women by surprise, but we can’t waste another minute in fighting back.
Our culture needs an answer to transgenderism, pornography, sexual violence, and the lies that are crippling our young women and robbing them of their dignity We cannot abdicate our responsibility to the next generation. It is up to women who fear God to restore the true meaning of our name.
Women have had enough. And now it’s time to rise up as emboldened warriors to declare the truth against the gender-bending culture’s lies.
Jennifer Strickland, a podcaster, author, and former model, is calling women to use their influence to expose the lies of gender ideology and point children and teens back to God’s beautiful design for male and female.
In I Am a Woman, Strickland calls Christians to uphold the dignity of womanhood with clarity and compassion. She urges readers to cherish the power imbedded in the name “Woman”-because women are not undefinable. The name “Woman” means guardian, rescuer, advocate, protector, and life-bearer. Women must reclaim their name and reject any agenda that diminishes the dignity of sex and gender for future generations-before it’s too late.
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Its Not Over Till Its Over Companion Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartGet To Know Him!
Never underestimate the power of God inside you because “…[He] is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Ephesians 3:20).
Join Denise Renner and her friend Heather Z as Heather recounts three life-threatening events she experienced that demonstrate the saving power of Jesus that resides in each of us. She emphasizes that, for believers, there is no fear in death because Jesus conquered death, and it no longer has any power over you!
The five lessons in this study, It’s Not Over Till It’s Over, will focus on the following topics:
*No Fear in Death
*Words of Life Have Power Over Death
*Death Knocks, But Jesus Answers
*Forgiveness Opens the Door to the Impossible
*Don’t Just Hold on to the Power – Give It Away!Get a deeper revelation of God’s immense love for you in this inspiring study with Denise and Heather Z. Jesus loves you with a love like no other, and He is just waiting for you to get to know Him.
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Learning From Gods Imperfect People
$19.99Add to cartFrom Flawed to Called:
Embracing Your Imperfection to Empower Your Faith
Do you ever worry that your flaws prevent God from working through you? Are these imperfections causing you to doubt your ability to fulfill your destiny?
Throughout the Bible, God used imperfect people to see His will be done. Prolific author and Bible teacher Elmer Towns illuminates the extraordinary journeys of biblical figures whose imperfections God used to weave the tapestry of His redemptive plan.
Through these stories, you will be encouraged that God’s power is made perfect in our weakness. This transformative book offers a profound exploration of how God’s grace operates, turning our flaws into avenues for His glory and our spiritual growth.
From this enlightening journey, you will discover:
How God’s grace is sufficient in our weaknesses, transforming them into strengths.The importance of faith and obedience in the face of personal imperfection and doubt.Lessons from biblical figures like Jacob and Peter, whose flaws were integral to their divine purpose.The redemptive power of God to use our imperfections for His greater plan and glory.Encouragement and hope that God is actively working in and through our imperfections to fulfill His divine purpose.
Discover how to embrace your imperfections as God’s strength, power, and purpose manifest in your life. By shifting your focus to Him, you will embrace a life of surrendered trust, assured that God will fulfill His plans through your imperfections.
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Day I Fell Down The Toilet And Other Poems
$16.99Add to cartHave you ever been punched by a cabbage or fallen head first down the loo?
Have you ever had fun with a poem? You haven’t? Then this book’s for you.
Whacky poems that take a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life.
This collection of over seventy poems for children by Steve Turner is regularly in the best-seller lists. Full of wit and fun, his thought-provoking poetry has been used by teachers in classrooms and entertained children at home over the years. These poems make an instant impact, as the themes and ideas in them offer lots of food for thought for young minds.
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7 Challenges That Shaped The New Testament
$49.99Add to cartThe New Testament writings reflect a sense of wrestling to understand what the world-shattering events of Jesus’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension mean in the rough-and-tumble of daily life in a conflicted world. In this book, a senior New Testament scholar investigates seven critical areas of tension–historical, moral, political, material, social, perceptual, and temporal–that shape the “big ideas” discussed and debated in the New Testament.
This lively investigation explores the challenges that influenced the New Testament writings and how the writers responded to those tensions. The author shows that out of this upheaval came a remarkable set of creative, dynamic writings that have shaped and challenged millions of lives as sacred Scripture.
This accessibly written book offers a fresh way to learn about the world and content of the New Testament writings. It will help readers appreciate the rich diversity of New Testament thought cohering around commitment to the one Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Embedded Genres In The New Testament
$39.99Add to cartRecognizing what we are reading–the genre–is crucial for understanding any written work, including the books of the New Testament. However, we may not always realize we use genre categories as we interpret, whether explicitly or implicitly. Embedded genres, or genres within genres, can substantively impact the interpretation of an entire New Testament book.
This short, accessible book by a widely respected scholar and seasoned teacher introduces embedded genres, their impact on New Testament interpretation, and how they contribute to the message of the New Testament authors. Jeannine Brown offers hermeneutical guidance for interpreting embedded genres and explores the hermeneutical questions they raise. She focuses on three case studies of embedded genres that have been contested, underidentified, or underappreciated across the New Testament corpus: the Christ poem in Philippians 2, riddles in Matthew, and the household code in 1 Peter.
Students of the New Testament, pastors, and ministry leaders will value this work.
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Othered : Finding Belonging With The God Who Pursues The Hurt, Harmed, And
$39.99Add to cartGod’s people are meant to be a blessing to others. Yet in the Scriptures, throughout history, and in our own times we too often see the people of God causing harm to people on the margins. Rather than caring for the widowed and the orphaned or loving the sojourner, too often we see abuse of power that breaks spirits and inflicts lasting harm.
For anyone who has felt left out or pushed out of the church, Othered is your invitation to find spiritual rest and belonging in a God who loves, restores, and blesses the outcast and the marginalized. Jenai Auman draws on her experience growing up as a biracial kid in the American South as well as working within toxic ministry environments to reveal a hopeful, trauma-informed way forward. This book illuminates how hurt and betrayal in the church are longstanding problems that God neither sanctions nor tolerates. It offers holistic responses to the grief, anger, and trauma that come with being ostracized or oppressed by the church. And it shows how God provides shelter and provision in the midst of the wilderness.
Because God sees, hears, and loves you–even if the church has failed you.
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Hope After Church Hurt
$39.99Add to cartThe people of God hurt you–but the heart of God is to heal you.
Written for anyone wounded in a place of worship, and unsure how to move forward in their faith, this powerful book is an insightful and honest guide into eight unique types of church hurt–and how to heal from them.
Having helped thousands move from anger, distrust, apathy, and heartache to safely reengaging in their faith–and local church–Pastor Joe Dobbins offers compassion, wisdom, and practical advice to help you:
*understand why church hurt is so potent and hard to address
*break free from bad beliefs, self-defeating patterns, and cycles of pain
*discover the way to inner healing
*release your pain and reframe your story
*find the courage to reengage in a faith community
*protect yourself in the futureThe pain of church hurt is real. But so is the hope of healing–and that healing can begin today.
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Her Part To Play
$29.99Add to cartDesperate for extra income after her mother’s passing, Adanne accepts a last-minute job as a makeup artist for a movie filming in her small Alabama hometown. She’s working to save her parents’ legacy and help her brother, but the money hardly seems worth having to face the actor who got her fired from her last job in Hollywood.
John Pope has made his share of mistakes over the years. But after turning his life over to God and enduring a messy breakup, he’s ready to start rebuilding his career. Imagine his surprise when the woman called in to cover for his usual makeup artist is a quiet but feisty newcomer on the set–and definitely not a fan.
Sparks of tension–and could that be attraction?–fly between them, but Adanne hates the spotlight, and John’s scheming manager has bigger plans for him than to end up with the humble makeup girl from the small-town South. Can these star-crossed lovers find their way to happiness? Or will the bright lights of Hollywood blind their eyes to what’s right in front of them?
Debut author Jenny Erlingsson’s diverse cast comes alive with faith, romance, and a touch of humor to create a story worthy of the big screen.
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Last Exchange : A Novel
$18.99Add to cart“Here’s the catch–even if I make it out of here alive, I need a reason to breathe again.”
When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren’t working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue.
It didn’t take long for Pockets to realize there were two Joe Sues: The Joe Sue the public saw with her perfect life and her Hollywood husband. And the private Joe Sue: the one with the traumatic youth that no amount of pills could cover up, who desperately wanted a child of her own.
Even after their paths diverged, he continued to track Joe Sue’s life. Only a few would notice when the bottom fell out. But he did. And that’s when he stepped in.
One man seeks to answer the question: How far would you go–really– to save someone you love? And in the masterful hands of New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin, finding the answer will take readers on an intense and heart-wrenching journey to the very end.
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Resilient And Redeemed
$29.99Add to cartYou Are Not Alone
God cares deeply about you and your mental health. Author and mental health advocate Chris Morris has battled depression and suicidality his entire adult life. Even coming to Christ didn’t change this, which is something many fellow Christians don’t seem to understand. He still had to face the grief of unrelenting illness, the shame of struggling, and the pain of poor guidance.
In this compassionate and engaging book, Chris shares how he overcame these challenges and invites you to do the same–no matter your diagnosis. Weaving biblical truth and personal stories with thoughtful strategies and hard-earned wisdom, he helps you move past fear and shame to combat the specters of depression and suicidality.
God is still there, even in the darkest of places. May this book be a step in the process of healing and help you find hope in your battle.
Includes reflection questions, Scripture meditations, and a bonus video course.
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Life In The Son Revised And Updated (Revised)
$59.99Add to cartA deep study on the doctrine of eternal security
Does one moment of faith secure a person’s eternal destiny with God–even if that person later stops following and trusting in Jesus? Or does a person have to keep on trusting and following Jesus to remain in a saving relationship with God?
Now expanded with new chapters and research, this landmark book continues to offer one of the most penetrating studies on the controversial doctrine of eternal security, perseverance, and apostasy in the New Testament. Calling into question the popular “once saved, always saved” belief, internationally respected pastor and scholar Dr. Robert Shank reveals that the question we should be asking is not, “Is the believer secure?” but rather, “What does it mean to be a believer?”
Straightforward, thorough, and grounded in biblical understanding, this book warns Christians about dangers that could potentially lead a believer to become an unbeliever (falling away from faith) and share in the unbeliever’s eternal condemnation.
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Rocky Mountain Journey
$29.99Add to cartFaith Collins embarks on a perilous journey through the untamed wilderness of the Rocky Mountains in search of the Peigan Blackfoot woman who once saved her father’s life. Masquerading as a man, she follows a group of trappers who may be able to lead her to the place the woman is hiding, but keeping Faith’s identity a secret proves more difficult than she imagined.
Grant Allen is searching for his younger brother who was separated from him when their parents died many years ago. After receiving word that his brother went west to the Rockies, he joins a band of trappers, hoping they can lead him to his brother’s location. Soon Grant realizes there’s a woman hiding among the men, and he’s determined to find out her identity, what she’s hiding, and how he can keep her safe in this country of wild animals and even wilder men.
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Born Of Gilded Mountains
$39.99Add to cartWhen newcomer Mercy Windsor arrives in Mercy Peakin 1948 after a scandal shatters her gilded world as Hollywood’s beloved leading lady, she is determined to forge a new life in obscurity in this time-forgotten Colorado haven. She purchases Wildwood–anabandoned estate with a haunting history–and begins to restore it to its former glory.
But as she does, her every move tugs at the threads ofthat mountain’s lore, unearthing what became of herlong-lost pen pal, Rusty Bright, and the whereabouts of the infamous Galloping Goose Engine No. 8, whichvanished years ago, along with the mailbag it carried,whose contents could change the course of countlesslives. Not to mention another fabled treasure that–iffound–could right so many wrongs.
Among the towering mountains that stand as silentwitnesses, the ghosts of the past entangle with thecourage of the present to find a place where healing,friendship, and hope can abide amid a world foreverchanged
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You Can Be A Good Friend No Matter What
$19.99Add to cartFrom award-winning actress and mental-health advocate Taraji P. Henson, You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!) shows kids the great things that can happen when we approach others and ourselves with empathy, patience, and love.
In this debut picture book from Taraji P. Henson, quirky, stylish and a bit off-the-cuff Lil TJ is ready for her first day of school. But when she gets there, TJ finds that everything she does is a little different than everyone else and she’s standing out in all the wrong ways. Once TJ’s classmate Beau notices, he relentlessly teases her. TJ is filled with anxiety and doubt until she recalls some important words of wisdom from her Grandma Patsy. When she looks inside to her own creativity and personality, she figures out how to help herself make new friends! –and helps someone else too!
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Just Once : A Love Story
$18.99Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author “known for her deeply heartfelt novels” (Woman’s World) writes a sweeping and unforgettable World War II love story about a young woman torn between two brothers.
In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas. She’s dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens–Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front.
While Sam fights in Europe, an undeniable chemistry builds between Irvel and Hank but neither would dare cross that line. Then a telegram comes, and the news is devastating. Hank enlists the next day and has just two weeks until he ships out. Will either brother make it home alive? Or will Irvel lose everything?
And can love find a way, even from the ashes of the greatest heartbreak?
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3 2 1 Marriage Participant Guide Semester 1 (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartGod designed marriage as one of His greatest gifts to us.
321 Marriage Ghelps couples discover the hidden gems awaiting them when they let God define how they walk out their marriages. Only when you follow His plan can you discover the true joy and fulfillment He had in mind. Whether you are just laying the early foundation as newlyweds or desiring fresh wind in the seasoned sails of your marriage, we want to encourage you on the journey and help you discover that God’s plan for a dynamic marriage is possible!
Developed oby a couple for couples, this unique 12-week course is designed to encourage couples toward healthy and thriving God-honoring marriages. Session topics cover the foundational areas where most couples struggle, including:
*Prayer–how to build your marriage on prayer togetherd
*Kindness–what that really looks like in a marriage
*Needs–how each partner is different
*Love–how to provide security and connection to each other
*Money–how to act as one while thinking individually
*Family–how to prevent or navigate volatile dynamicsThe leader guide offers exclusive digital content, including supporting biblical commentary for each lesson. You can find it at lifebiblestudy.com.
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My Carry Along Rhyming Bible
$10.99Add to cartTeach little ones that God is our helper with these 12 Bible stories. The upbeat stories told in rhyme and the bright, lovable art paired with a sparkly cover and carry-along handle will engage babies, toddlers, and preschoolers as they learn that God is always there for them.
My Carry-Along Rhyming Bible features:
*12 favorite Bible stories, including creation, Noah’s ark, Daniel and the lions’ den, and Jesus’ birth and resurrection;
*simple stories told in poetry;
*short prayers that guide young children in thanking God for His care; and
*a carry-along handle, sparkly cover, and sturdy board pages.
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Standard Lesson Commentary KJV 2024-2025 Large Print Edition (Large Type)
$26.99Add to cartAs the world’s most popular annual Bible commentary for more than three decades, Standard Lesson Commentary (SLC) provides 53 weeks of study in a single volume and combines thorough Bible study with relevant examples and questions.
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Key features include:*Verse-by-verse explanation of the Bible text
*Detailed lesson context
*Pronunciation guide for difficult words
*Printed Scripture
*Discussion starters
*A review quiz for each quarterAvailable in the King James Version (KJV) and New International Version(R) (NIV) Bible translations, the SLC is based on the popular Uniform Series. This series, developed by scholars from numerous church fellowships, outlines an in-depth study of the Bible over a multi-year period.
The four main themes of the 2024-2025 study are:
*Worship in the Covenant Community–Genesis, Exodus, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Isaiah, Psalms, John
*A King Forever and Ever–Ruth, 2 Samuel, Psalms, Matthew, Luke
*Costly Sacrifice–Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Matthew, Hebrews, 1 John, Revelation
*Sacred Altars and Holy Gifts–Genesis, Matthew, Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, Hebrews, 1 Peter
The SLC is perfect as the primary resource for an adult Sunday School class, for personal study, or as a supplemental resource for any curriculum that follows the ISSL/Uniform Series. Nearly two dozen ministers, teachers, and Christian education specialists contribute their expertise to SLC.
The Deluxe Edition features online and downloadable access for the Standard Lesson eCommentary through FaithLife’s Logos Bible Software. This includes the full text of the Standard Lesson Commentary (both KJV and NIV(R) editions) as well as:
*PowerPoint(R) presentations
*Full text of the KJV Bible
*Full-color visual resources
*Student activity reproducible pages
*Quarterly quiz
*More than a dozen additional helps and resources -
Hudson Collection
$39.99Add to cartElsa Reisner’s lifelong dream of working as an ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History is fading as the job begins to drain her passion. But fate takes an unexpected turn when she is assigned to catalog the bequest of a recently deceased patron whose Gothic country mansion holds secrets and treasures waiting to be discovered.
As Elsa delves into her task, she forms an unlikely bond with the estate’s delightful gardener and her daughter, as well as an architectural salvage dealer who still bears scars from the Great War. Together, they embark on a thrilling treasure hunt for a missing relic intended to safeguard the servants’ futures before the estate is sold. At the same time, Elsa’s body seems to betray her with new symptoms from a childhood disease that isn’t through with her yet.
With the brooding veteran and her handsome colleague joining the search, Elsa must navigate the tangled web of secrets and hidden motives along with the changing state of her health. As her deadline looms ever closer, will she be able to secure a new life for her friends before the estate slips from their grasp?
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Why Not You
$8.99Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From Grammy-winning pop star Ciara and Super Bowl champ Russell Wilson comes a story to inspire young readers to see value in themselves, be brave, and go after their biggest dreams–now as a board book!
Why not you? Amazing you! You’re a winner! You’re so strong! You are perfect and important–you and all your gifts belong!
We all have big dreams! Sometimes it’s hard to imagine our big dreams coming true. But what if someone saw all the amazing and spectacular parts of us–our winning smiles, our fancy feet, our warm hearts–and asked, “Why not you?”
Whether it’s becoming a football player or a pop star or the president or a scientist: Why not you?
In this new, more durable format–perfect for babies and toddlers– superstars Ciara and Russell Wilson encourage little ones to achieve their dreams, no matter how outrageous they may seem. It’s a lyrical celebration of self-esteem, perseverance, and daring to shoot for the stars.
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You Are Not Alone
$13.99Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author, visionary, and mom of four Jennie Allen offers a practical guide to help kids form positive habits and connections that are crucial to their mental and spiritual health.
Spinning, anxious thoughts can sometimes take over our minds and not let go, but we have the power to choose what to think and believe-and so do our children. In this edition for young readers, bestselling author Jennie Allen draws on the insights, truth, and experiences from her New York Times bestsellers Get Out of Your Head and Find Your People to help younger kids and tweens:
*trade fear, anxiety, loneliness, and shame for God’s love and peace
*learn how to notice lies and believe what’s true
*hit pause on negative thoughts and retrain their brains to think life-giving thoughts
*gain tools to rely on God’s power and truth every dayKids don’t have to be at the mercy of toxic input and negative thoughts. In these pages, they’ll discover exactly how to interrupt swirling thought patterns, develop better friendships, and create new day-to-day habits that will lead them closer to God and to a life of peace, joy, and love. You Are Not Alone includes questions, action steps, Bible verses, and real-life stories to help them be who God has called them to be.
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Trust
$5.99Add to cartBrother and Sister agree to watch little Honey Bear while Mama and Papa clean the attic. Can the cubs be trusted to keep an eye on their baby sister? Find out in this faith-based storybook starring the Berenstain Bears!
While they are busy cleaning, Mama and Papa trust Brother and Sister to watch Honey Bear, the baby of the bunch. But when the cubs get distracted by their favorite film, Honey gets into a sticky mess! This Berenstain Bears Gifts of the Spirit storybook, created by Mike Berenstain, son of Stan and Jan Berenstain, features a soon-to-be classic story about being trustworthy!
The Berenstain Bears Gifts of the Spirit series celebrates the joy of faith, family, and friends-values essential to a wholesome and fulfilling life!
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Hopeful Activist : Discovering The Vital Change You Were Made To Bring
$14.99Add to cartAll around us there are signs of a broken world, situations that are just not right. Where do we begin? Sometimes we simply don’t know what to do. Or maybe you are busy ‘doing’ and it’s tough, even bringing you close to burn out.
Whether you are new to activism or already on the road, this book will (re)kindle your hope and illuminate the way ahead.
Featuring contributions from Shane Claiborne, Lisa Sharon Harper, Krish Kandiah, Sam Wells and many more, The Hopeful Activist is full of fresh wisdom and practical advice to help you play your part in bringing God’s justice and restoration to the world around you.
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Looking Inward Living Outward
$19.99Add to cartIn a world of so much hurt, how can we create communities of care and healing?
While much of contemporary Christianity careens toward a spirituality of individual salvation and the afterlife, the call of Jesus to create communities that enact justice and bring peace on earth is often tragically ignored. In his revelatory new book Looking Inward, Living Outward, author and student of the spiritual life Daniel Wolpert calls us back to a life of prayer and core spiritual practices that re-orient our gaze outward in acts of social transformation.
Drawing from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, one of the most radical speeches in human history, this encouraging and practical guide connects acts of contemplation with action, providing a biblically based and spiritually grounded course corrective for how Christians are called to live as Beloved Community today. Discover how spiritual practices can change the way you interact with the world and inspire lasting social change.
Key Takeaways:
*Learn practical spiritual practices to live a life molded by a deep spiritual connection.
*Explore the nature of the spiritual life and how it can become a guiding force in our daily lives.
*Understand the teachings of Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount as a blueprint for living in community and society.
*Discover the importance of communities of practice in reorienting our actions and promoting compassion in a world filled with challenges.
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Standard Lesson Commentary KJV 2024-2025
$24.99Add to cartAs the world’s most popular annual Bible commentary for more than three decades, Standard Lesson Commentary (SLC) provides 53 weeks of study in a single volume and combines thorough Bible study with relevant examples and questions.
Key features include:
*Verse-by-verse explanation of the Bible text
*Detailed lesson context
*Pronunciation guide for difficult words
*Printed Scripture
*Discussion starters
*A review quiz for each quarterAvailable in the King James Version (KJV) and New International Version(R) (NIV) Bible translations, the SLC is based on the popular Uniform Series. This series, developed by scholars from numerous church fellowships, outlines an in-depth study of the Bible over a multi-year period.
The four main themes of the 2024-2025 study are:
*Worship in the Covenant Community-Genesis, Exodus, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Isaiah, Psalms, John
*A King Forever and Ever-Ruth, 2 Samuel, Psalms, Matthew, Luke
*Costly Sacrifice-Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Matthew, Hebrews, 1 John, Revelation
*Sacred Altars and Holy Gifts-Genesis, Matthew, Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, Hebrews, 1 Peter
The SLC is perfect as the primary resource for an adult Sunday School class, for personal study, or as a supplemental resource for any curriculum that follows the ISSL/Uniform Series. Nearly two dozen ministers, teachers, and Christian education specialists contribute their expertise to SLC.
The Deluxe Edition features online and downloadable access for the Standard Lesson eCommentary through FaithLife’s Logos Bible Software. This includes the full text of the Standard Lesson Commentary (both KJV and NIV(R) editions) as well as:
*PowerPoint(R) presentations
*Full text of the KJV Bible
*Full-color visual resources
*Student activity reproducible pages
*Quarterly quiz
*More than a dozen additional helps and resources -
Antigone Kingsley Dont Judge Me
$12.99Add to cartMeet Antigone ‘Tig’ Kingsley – your new BFF.
Antigone Kingsley (Tig) and her sister Ismene are invited to join their French cousin Amelie at a holiday camp in Switzerland.
Upon arriving at the camp, Tig is upset to find that she has been enrolled in a pottery course while her sister and cousin enjoy the exciting drama camp. Clearly, the events of last summer have not been forgotten or forgiven. To keep the peace, disappointed Tig reluctantly agrees. Over the course, Tig captures some hilarious moments on video of her classmates and uploads them to her social media channel. Elated that the views hit record likes, Tig swiftly discovers that the videos have been tampered with and the fallout has catastrophic consequences.
Will Tig’s need for popularity jeopardise new friendships leading to a lonely path ahead? Or can Tig make amends with her classmates when facing a hiking challenge together? Does it really matter what others think if true friendship delights and accepts just being yourself?
Antigone Kingsley: Don’t Judge Me by author Marina Magdalena, is the second book in this coming-of-age series that makes the perfect companion for middle grade girls going through the highs and lows of growing up. Filled with positive role models, healthy self-exploration, fruitful relationships, vulnerability and good humour, teens will love journeying with Tig as she faces the social pressures, spiralling emotions, burning desires and grand disappointments of teenage life! Tig is your relatable, imperfect, clumsy, hot-headed girl next door who learns to embrace who she is, solve problems and bring sparkle to the world.
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How To Stay Married
$19.99Add to cartOne gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife–the sweet, funny, loving mother of their three daughters, a woman “who’s spent just about every Sunday of her life in a church”–is having an affair with a family friend. This revelation propels the hysterical, heartbreaking events in How to Stay Married, casting our narrator onto “the factory floor of hell,” where his wife was now in love with a man who “wears cargo shorts, on purpose.” What will he do? Kick her out? Set fire to all her panties in the yard? Beat this man to death with a gardening implement? Ask God for help in winning her back?
Armed only with a sense of humor and a hunger for the truth, Harrison embarks on a hellish journey into his past, seeking answers to the riddles of faith and forgiveness. Through an absurd series of escalating confessions and betrayals, Harrison reckons with his failure to love his wife in the ways she needed most, resolves to fight for his family, and in a climax almost too ridiculous to be believed, finally learns that love is no joke.
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Walking The Theological Life
$26.00Add to cartTheologian Tim Gaines invites you into the adventures of theology, not as a disconnected discipline, but as an invitation to respond to God from the deepest parts of ourselves. More than an intellectual pursuit, Gaines explores the lives of key biblical characters to help us grow in our understanding of how to do theology virtuously.
Explore how to do theology virtuously through the lives of biblical characters.
For many who are not initiated into the discipline, theology can feel either overwhelming or just plain boring, especially when theological discourse is disconnected from the lives we live. But for centuries, theology wasn’t a disconnected discipline-but an invitation to respond to God from the deepest parts of who we are.
Theologian Tim Gaines invites readers into the adventure of theology, breathing life into the study of God. More than an intellectual pursuit, Walking the Theological Life explores the lives of key biblical characters pursuing their own theological paths, helping us learn and grow in our own understanding of how to do theology in a virtuous fashion. Enter into the stories of biblical characters and discover the joy of the theological journey.
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Worth Seeing : Viewing Others Through God’s Eyes
$18.00Add to cartWhile most of society views high-risk youth with fear or disregard, Amy Williams has come to see them through God’s eyes-as having tremendous value and potential. With stories and practical tips from three decades of ministry, Amy challenges perceptions and increases compassion for these youth who are often pushed to the margins of society.
“We are in the business of seeing others, seeing them the way God sees them, and letting them know they have value.”
Amy L. Williams has spent three decades doing ministry with youth in gangs and prisons. While most of society sees high-risk youth through lenses of fear or disregard, she has come to see them through God’s eyes as having tremendous value and potential. Worth Seeing provides an up-close look at her work-successes, losses, lessons, and embarrassing mistakes. Through personal narrative, Amy reveals the lives of youth who are often pushed to the margins of society. Her storytelling both challenges perceptions and increases compassion and understanding, not just with youth, but all people. Practical tips equip you to take action to see others the way God sees them